While
the news media feverishly covered the untimely death of music icon Michael
Jackson and the sex scandal involving a Republican governor in South
Carolina, President Barack Obama on the same day revealed his plans
to reform US immigration policy. During the course of his televised
announcement, Obama used the term "undocumented
workers" and avoided using the terms "illegal aliens"
and "illegal workers."

"While
watching President Obama, I kept thinking how we've been talking and
talking and talking about this issue for years and yet illegal aliens
-- many of whom are violent criminals, gang members and terrorists --
continue to pour across the border. When will Americans rise up and
demand action instead of words and slogans?" asks New Jersey political
strategist Mike Baker

"To
be sure, Obama and several powerful lawmakers are on the same page.
For example, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called Immigration &
Customs Enforcement operations "Un-American," while fellow
Democrat Congressman Luis Guttierez called Border Patrol and ICE agents
"the Gestapo," said Baker.

Many
critics noted that unfortunately for an America chock full of potential
crime victims, not once did the President mention "undocumented
criminals" or "criminal aliens" or even any mention of
crime committed by thousands and thousands of non-citizen criminals
who commit the murders, rapes, robberies and other offenses that American
citizens don't commit. [Read]

It's
been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent
of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
and Customs and Border Protection -- two agencies within the Department
of Homeland Security -- claim in several reports that they've apprehended
over 100,000 criminal aliens whose offenses go far beyond violation
of immigration laws and regulations.

Sadly,
only about 25 percent of expenses for imprisoning criminal aliens is
reimbursed by the federal government to state and local governments.
This creates a hardship for taxpayers in states with high incarceration
rates for criminal aliens. In some states, there's even talk of releasing
criminal aliens without notifying the federal authorities.

In
Los Angeles, according to police reports, 95 percent of the arrest warrants
for homicides are for illegal aliens. Sixty-five percent of overall
warrants are for "undocumented criminals."

The
proponents of open borders or lax immigration enforcement always point
to the benefits derived from illegal immigration such as the amount
of taxes they pay into the government system.
Evidence, however, exists that refutes those claims. For instance, there
is an abundance of anecdotal evidence that suggests a large number of
illegal aliens are paid "off-the-books" therefore those wages
are not taxed.

The
National Research Council has estimated that the net fiscal cost of
immigration ranges from $11 billion to $22 billion per year, with most
government expenditures on immigrants coming from state and local coffers,
while most taxes paid by immigrants who actually do pay taxes go to
the federal treasury. [Read]

The
net deficit is caused by a low level of tax payments by immigrants,
because they are disproportionately low-skilled and thus earn low wages,
and a higher rate of consumption of government services, both because
of their relative poverty and their higher fertility.

This
is especially true of illegal immigration. Even though illegal aliens
make little use of welfare, from which they are generally barred, the
costs of illegal immigration in terms of government expenditures for
education, criminal justice, and emergency medical care are significant.
And those who managed to steal the identities of American citizens do
in fact apply for welfare including food stamps.

Californian
officials have estimated that the net cost to taxpayers in order to
provide government services to illegal immigrants approached $3 billion
during a single fiscal year. And even that figure is suspected of being
low-balled for political purposes. The fact that states must bear the
cost of federal failure turns illegal immigration, in effect, into one
of the largest unfunded federal mandates existing today.

In
addition, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, even with
free trade, the United States continues to enjoy a higher real wage
than other nations, due to the superiority of US technology. If taken
to an extreme and the US removed all barriers to migration, most foreign
workers would move to the United States, lured by the higher wages available
here; Foreign labor would essentially cease to exist.

However,
with all labor now in the United States, the prices of goods would return
to their level of self-sufficiency, prior to the opening of trade. That
is, perfectly free migration entirely eliminates the gains from trade
that US natives had enjoyed. World income rose with the migration, but
the natives of foreign countries in this case received more than all
of this rise, since the income of US natives declined. With the world's
majority of low-wage workers in the US, there would be tremendous damage
to free trade and its benefits, with US middle and upper-middle class
workers suffering the brunt of declining wages.

The
urge for a utopian state of existence and a desire to make all things
equal by the American Left has given way to a desire simply to make
all things equal sans utopia. In their passion for a neo-Marxist level
for the masses, they've decided consciously or subconsciously that if
they could not bring the World's population up to the American level
of prosperity and wealth, then they will bring US citizens down to the
World's level of poverty and misery. For this is a result of seeing
free trade as a zero-sum entity, and self-alienation of the American
Left from their own country, the USA.

"The
problem isn't about the need for new laws; the problem is about the
lack of enforcement of existing laws. The US Constitution provides the
executive branch with a number of inherent powers such as the enforcement
of immigration laws," said former NYPD Detective Ben Cardozo.

"The
Constitution also mandates that the President protect American sovereignty
and the American people. That is the number one priority for our government
-- of it should be. And congress is mandated to provide domestic tranquility
for Americans. Criminal alien gangbangers do not add to our domestic
tranquility," said the decorated police officer.

"Why
is it suddenly necessary for congress to pass laws on illegal immigration
when we haven't been enforcing the laws that already exist. The executive
branch has the power to add border agents, equipment and other resources.
The President has the power to use the military if necessary to enhance
border protection. Passing laws is an easy, painless process. The trick
is to enforce those laws," adds Mike Baker.

The
University of Texas at El Paso recently conducted a study that found
the following: Treating illegal immigrants in hospitals accounts for
nearly one quarter of the uncompensated costs at border county hospitals
in Cochise County. That county in Arizona spends tens of thousands of
dollars just picking up trash left at campsites by these illegals. Prosecuting
and jailing illegals costs this county an additional $5 million a year.
And 25 percent of Cochise County's budget is paid for health care for
the uninsured, the majority of whom are illegally in the country.

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In
another study of a sample group of 55,000 criminal aliens, it was discovered
they accounted for over 400,000 arrests and more than 700,000 criminal
acts including felonies. Americans are being hoodwinked by politicians
who are squandering the legacy of future American citizens in the name
of charity. And the blood of citizens killed, brutalized and raped by
de facto invaders is on the hands of our elected leaders. [Read]